Method of transporting bricks, &amp;c.



PATENTED DEC. 24, 1907.

w. H. FRANCIS. METHOD OF TBANSPORTING BRICKS, &o.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1']. 1907.

* NITE sTA Es PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM HENRY FRANCIS, or GHERRYVAEE, KANsAs, AssIsNoR 0F ONE-HALF TOCHARLES FRANCIS, OF INDEPENDENCE, KANsAs.

- METHOD OF TRANSPOBTING- BRICKS, 8w.

Specification of Letters Patent, Application filed June 17. 1907. SerialNo. 379,367.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM HENRY FRANCIS, a citizen of the UnitedStates, ,residing at Cherryvale, in the county of Montgomery and Stateof Kansas, have invented a new and'useful Improvement in Methods ofTransporting Bricks, &c.,of which the following is a specification. Myinvention is in the nature of a new method of transporting in bulk, fromplace to place weighty masses of material in detached but regularaliquot parts, such as It is designed chiefly for transporting a stackof bricks of one. hundred or more about the brick yard to or from thedrying house and kiln or storage place in a safe and ex" e-'- ditiousway, thereby saving much valua le time in hacking up the same andavoiding fihe chipping or damaging of the edges of the rick.

It will be understood that when a pile of bricks is hacked up in regularorder in a pile, a difliculty which resents itself in any e ort .totransport the p1 e intact is that any lifting supports which are underthe pile occupy a position entirely below ,the bottom layer of ricks andif the pile is transported and set down, the weight of thesuperincumbent mass on the lifting su ports will pinchthe latter to theearth or oor, so that it is not possible to withdraw the liftingsupports from beneath the superincumbent mass. I

In my invention 1 have devised a method of o eration which isindependent of any par ticu ar apparatus, but may be carried out by avariety of mechanical appliances and it entirely avoids the difficultyboth of getting the lifting supports under the pile of bricks andextricating said supports after the pile-has been trans orted, withouttaking down the pile of bric s or handling them separately in anyway.

My method consists in a plying the main lifting strain toa horizontalplane of the pile above its basicplane, or bottom layer of bricks, butbelow the center of gravity and at the same time'picking up the basiclayer of bricks .by a clamping strain applied laterally to the basiclayer at interva s between the bricks of this basic layer, so that thebasic layer although transported ,alongwith the rest of the pile is suported by a pinching action on the sides 6 the brick ap 'ed latof bricPanama Dec. 24., 1907.

erally to the same. For carrying out "this method the bricks of thebasic layer are spaced apart from each other a half inch or more-toallowthe lifting su ports andlaterally pinching devices to e insertedbeoad is set down on thejfioor.

.Asbefore stated, various mechanical ap pliances maybe emloyed forcarrym out 111 method which w l readily suggest t emse yes to thoseskilled in the arts. One form of such an apparatus is shown in my PatentN 0. 859,445, granted July 9, 1907, but I have shownin the drawing anillustration of my method separate and apart from allapparaindividuality of the method separate and apart from the merefunction of the apparatus. r

ms which will, serve to clearly elucidate the The figure is adiagrammatic illustration of v the method. I

A A- A A represents a pile ofbricks hacked up in regular order in theusual way .to. hold. them bonded together. Only the lower layer A Aof-this ile is shown.

The'basic layer'of 'bric s B are set aregular distance apart, leaving saces between the basic layer of bricks of suitable width to allowlifting supports in the shape of horizon- .tal bars or fingers to passbeneath the layer A A for applying the vertical lifting strain to 'allof the superlncumbent mass AA A A in the direction of the verticalarrows a. At. the same time a pinching strain is applied in horizontaldirection between each brickgof the basic layer of bricks B, as shown bythe horizontal arrows b. This pinching strain is applied at right anglesto the mainlifting strain and is designed simply and only for thepurpose of lifting and carrying with the su erincumbent mass the basiclayer B, so that the whole pile'ma be moved intact.

really forms so many shortlegs to the super-r In other words- The basiclayer of bric s B- i i of the arrows a after the pileof bric .has

been set down and as readily allows them to be taken up. t

Although intended chiefl for use in transporting bricks, it will eunderstood that my method is not confined thereto, but may be usedequally well for transporting all kinds of wei hty material of aliquotparts when sta'cke in piles or masses.

I claim 1. The method of transporting masses of material in bulk, whichconsists in applying applied below the plane of application of the thelifting strain at a oint below the center of gravity of the bul butabove the basiclayer of the material and at the same time lifting thebasic layer by a pinching strain lifting strain and at right angles tothe same but above the basiQsurface of the mass.

2. The method of transporting separate blocks of material in stacked-ubulk, which 20 consists in spacing apart the asie layer of such blocks,applying the lifting strain below the center of gravity of the massabove the basic layer and between the units of the basic layer and atthe same time pinchin 25 and lifting the basic layer by a horizontastrain at right angles to the lifting strain and moving the entire pileintact.

WILLIAM HENRY FRANCIS.

Witnesses:

' L. P; Bnooxs,

GRACE RIOHART.

